This is a full-length study exploring Simone de Beauvoir's
autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of ideas
on selfhood formulated in Le deuxieme sexe and her other
philosophical essays of the 1940s. Drawing on more recent work in
autobiographical studies and working within a broadly Foucauldian
framework, Ursula Tidd offers a detailed analysis of Beauvoir's
auto/biographical strategy as a woman writer seeking to write
herself into the male-constructed autobiographical canon. Tidd
first analyses Beauvoir's notions of selfhood in her philosophical
essays, and then discusses her four autobiographical and two
biographical volumes, along with some of her unpublished diaries,
in an attempt to explore notions of selectivity, and the politics
of truth-production and reception. The study concludes that
Beauvoir's vast auto/biographical project, situated in specific
personal and historical contexts, can be read as shaped by a
testimonial obligation rooted in a productive consciousness of the
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